Pavel Žiaran

Mendel University in Brno · Department of Finance

The objective of this research is to understand gender differences in motivational drivers at workplace, with a focus on people with working experiences in the field of e-commerce and e-business. Special attention is devoted to the preference of the competitive and cooperative behaviour. We examined gender differences in the preference of eight mot...

Ultimatum game belongs to the classical economic experiments, frequently used to study altruism and pro-social behavior. The objective of the research is to understand relations between the personality and the ultimatum game from the responder ́s perspective. Participants (N=224, females 62%) filled the web-based questionnaires on Hexaco-PI and hyp...

Research background: The labor markets in the European countries are largely converging under the common platform of the EU legislation. However, the specific labor conditions across the countries still pertain, thus influencing the state of health differently across the countries. Purpose of the article: The article has for objective to reveal the...

Research background: Research background: The evolving opportunities of studies at foreign universities and the geographical expansion of the labour market create the need of facilitating a process of adapting students to studying and working. Despite a rapid increase in the number of international students in the higher education sector, little is...

Behavioural experiments in the field of provision of public goods (including free rider problem) help to uncover the underlying processes and forces determining the nature of economy in the public sector. The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of gender and intergroup conditions on the extent of cooperation in standard linear public...

The aim of this study is to analyse the factors which influence the tendency to look for early retirement for the group of the workers after 55+ in Czech Republic. The focus is on comparison between the group of the selfemployed and the group of the salaried. Research is based on the sixth wave (2015) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement...

Extension of working life in relation to the demographic development belongs to the most import issues the European nations face today. The objective of this paper, which is based upon work from ISCH COST Action IS1409 Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Scien...

Poprvé v lidské historii máme my i naši blízcí reálnou šanci dožít se v přiměřeném zdraví dlouhého života. Obavy z ekonomické zátěže a disharmonie pracovního trhu v souvislosti se stárnutím populace vnímáme jako výzvu, která nás inspiruje k výzkumům, šetřením a podrobným analýzám. Předkládaná monografie hledá odpovědi na otázky spojené s touto fylo...

The aim of the current study is to analyze motivational drivers important for the competitive and for the cooperative personality types which may have relevant implications for HR management. Nowadays, corporations in their search for efficiency should enhance their talent management and focus on the most relevant motivational factors. Today, anoth...

In this paper we analyze the difference between the competitive and cooperative personality type in terms of most relevant individual personality traits stemming from the Neo-Big 5 personality inventory. The results provide better understanding of behavioral tendencies of these two antagonistic personality types. Data comprise 177 respondents (41%...

Purpose – Last two decades have seen a marked increase in the interest given to the field of business ethics, particularly, marketing ethics. Marketing ethics provides an innumerable amount of materials and topics for open discussion, as well as for application in practice. Our intention is to open up a space within which to promote timely debate o...

The paper has for objective to analyze the capacity of personality traits “Sincerity-Modesty” and “Self-esteem”, defined by the test Hexaco PI-R, to work as predictors of ethical orientations in leadership as “person-organization fit” in ethical and unethical situation. We tested the model on a group of undergraduate students (n = 156) in the form...

Objective of the article is to analyze the capacity of economic games dictator and ultimatum to predict ethical behavioral tendencies in the managerial context. The research has been carried out on the basis of the in-class behavioral experiment, using the principles of Gepard (Generator of Economic Behavior in Pedagogic Activities for Research and...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the nature of a motivational driver " Professional challenge " through the prism of personality traits defined in a frame of a competence model. There were 177 respondents in the research of which 41% were females, aged 20–50. An online questionnaire was employed consisting of two subsets of questions explo...

Objective: People differ in their aspirations to take the managerial position if their target company violates ethical standards. However, it is not clear what influences their decision. In our study, we test the structural hypothesis concerning the relation between particular personality traits and decision-making under ethically relevant situatio...

Objective of this paper is to explore whether the preference of a managerial position (MP) is predicted by the predisposition to unethical behavior (UB), measured by the Fairness and Sincerity. On the sample of 157 undergraduate students of business we analyzed preferences for the MP (expressed in the frame of leaderless group discussion) in relati...

Objective: Article examines relation between human behavior in the economic experiment “Dictator” (expressing social values / altruism ) and the underlying psychological processes, measured by the personality test “Hexaco” (based on 6 personality dimensions: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to...

Objective: 1) To provide a bibliometric picture of humility as presented in current academic management journals and 2) to identify new research trends. Method: A survey of specialized publications, citations, H-index, etc. Findings: Humility research in management, in terms of number of publications and citations, has a comparable position to othe...

In the article we analyze how managerial style impacts satisfaction of employees and their adherence to the organization's objectives, by means of a controlled in-class experiment. Methodology: We exposed subjects to six scenarios based on combination of: (1) two managerial styles (authoritative vs. participative) and (2) three levels of manager's...